This meeting of the Detroit City Council, presided over by Council President Pro Tempore Coleman A. Young II, opened with roll call, approval of minutes, and public comment from in-person and remote callers. Key topics included disparities in code enforcement, a veteran's complaint about a coercive container removal, a health fair announcement, and calls for a more transparent law department and separation of powers. The council also considered several resolutions for special events.
The Neighborhood and Community Services Standing Committee was adjourned without objection.
Order with a clerk, please call the roll. Council President Proton Coleman A Young the second. Here. Councilmember Scott Benson. Councilmember Renata Miller. Here. Mr. Church, you have a form present. All right, excellent. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion. Motion's been made. Are any objections? Hearing none. The minutes are approved. All right. We will now go negative chair remarks. We will go to public comment. How many people do we have in person who want to give public comment? We see one person. I don't see anyone else. Going once, going twice, going three times, gone. All right, Mr. Foster. Come on up here. You here two minutes, sir. Oh, good afternoon through the chair. First off, it's good to see you all. I've been in this meeting at some time. But I did want to take some time out today. A veteran asked me if I still come down and he needed some assistance. 77-year-old Vietnam veteran disabled, living in the Boston Edison area, two blocks from Boston, 48202. The issue that you have is with coercive enforcement. And I agree that we have to deal with our elderly and our vulnerable in a more better fashion. He has a container in his backyard. It's been there for eight years. No issues at all. Is in lieu of a garage. Somebody came and left a card telling them that he had to move it within 10 days or pay a thousand dollar fine a week. No, uh no process, no hearing, no consideration of age or disability in these processes. And so I'm asking that BC um have a cease and desist letter until this party can find an equitable ground for the enforcement in our communities and particularly with our vulnerable and our citizens and more particularly with our veterans that have served this nation. Right. And so that's um what I did want to speak on. And then to add insult to injury, I enjoy downtown. I enjoy being on Peterborough. I go down to the comedy club down there. And it's a container factory. It's built out of containers, right? And sitting down there, somebody somehow they got uh opportunity to do business there, but then they would come in the community and find ways to penalize our community for the same things that they allow downtown or in the midgrade. So it's a hypocrisy until there's some equality there, or like a formal cease and desist letter until we can get those things situated.